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Enfeebled in, or destitute of, the power of sensation and motion; rendered torpid; benumbed; insensible; as, the fingers or limbs are numb with cold. "A stony image, cold and numb." Shak.

Numbness. [Obs.] Wiseman.

any. Ladies are always of great use to the party they espouse, and never fail to win over numbers. Addison.

One who numbers.

Numerous. [Obs.]

Innumerable; countless.

Numerous. [Obs.] Drant.

of Number. The fourth book of the Pentateuch, containing the census of the Hebrews.

The torpedo, which numbs by the electric shocks which it gives.

See Nombles.

The condition of being numb; that state of a living body in which it loses, wholly or in part, the power of feeling or motion.

A number that precedes another. [R.] Bacon.

To make torpid; to deprive of sensation or sensibility; to stupefy; as, a hand or foot benumbed by cold. The creeping death benumbed her senses first. Dryden.

Made torpid; numbed; stupefied; deadened; as, a benumbed body and mind. -- Be*numbed"ness, n.

Act of benumbing, or state of being benumbed; torpor. Kirby.

To shade; to darken. [Obs.]

To number wrongly.

To exceed in number.

An incomplete or partial shadow.

Of or pertaining to a penumbra; resembling a penumbra; partially illuminated.